The dilemma presented is to find an ethical action to the following situation: the issue is whether or not inform your in-laws that an opportunity presented at your work could potentially save their company from bankruptcy. You must also decide whether or not you should ask your workplace to extend the deadline of the public tender to allow your in-laws’ company to submit a proper proposal. Based on the justifications analyzed below, the ethical decision is to inform your in-laws of the public tender, however, to avoid giving an unfair advantage over other bidders, you can not convince the municipality to extend the public tender deadline for them and they can only choose to submit their proposal within the two days before the public tender
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ii) Mill’s Utilitarianism: since you know that there are many bidders for the project, asking the municipality for an extension would negatively impact the bidders since it gives your in-laws an advantage over their companies, thus not proposing the deadline extension will adhere to this theory. iii) Aristotle’s virtue ethics: the virtuous approach is one that reaches the golden mean between wastefulness and stinginess and in this case, it is to tell your in-laws as you will not be wasting an opportunity for both parties to benefit from your knowledge and you will not be keeping your knowledge to …show more content…
However, Solution B contradicts with Aristotle’s virtue ethics as it promotes wastefulness, fails to follow Kant’s formalism as it would be a selfish intention to keep the information to yourself, and could not be applied to Mill’s Utilitarianism as you would not be put in the position to ask for an extension.
6- Implementation: let your in-laws know immediately and inform them that they must submit their proposal before the public tender deadline.
The 3 tests for an ethical decision involves: 1. Transparency: if solution A was to be made public, it can be easily defended as you are simply informing your in-laws of a project that is already made public. 2. Reciprocity: from your in-laws and other bidders point of view, they would consider your choice fair since you did not promote the family business and did not disclaim any additional information to them that other bidders are not aware of. 3. Exemplary: it is an exemplary behavior that can be used to justify other ethical dilemmas since it promotes fair opportunities to all
ii) Mill’s Utilitarianism: since you know that there are many bidders for the project, asking the municipality for an extension would negatively impact the bidders since it gives your in-laws an advantage over their companies, thus not proposing the deadline extension will adhere to this theory. iii) Aristotle’s virtue ethics: the virtuous approach is one that reaches the golden mean between wastefulness and stinginess and in this case, it is to tell your in-laws as you will not be wasting an opportunity for both parties to benefit from your knowledge and you will not be keeping your knowledge to …show more content…
However, Solution B contradicts with Aristotle’s virtue ethics as it promotes wastefulness, fails to follow Kant’s formalism as it would be a selfish intention to keep the information to yourself, and could not be applied to Mill’s Utilitarianism as you would not be put in the position to ask for an extension.
6- Implementation: let your in-laws know immediately and inform them that they must submit their proposal before the public tender deadline.
The 3 tests for an ethical decision involves: 1. Transparency: if solution A was to be made public, it can be easily defended as you are simply informing your in-laws of a project that is already made public. 2. Reciprocity: from your in-laws and other bidders point of view, they would consider your choice fair since you did not promote the family business and did not disclaim any additional information to them that other bidders are not aware of. 3. Exemplary: it is an exemplary behavior that can be used to justify other ethical dilemmas since it promotes fair opportunities to all